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Screeching animal - what could it be..... (1 Viewer)
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Beverlybaynes
Mod Squad
Just out of curiosity -- if you were here in the US, in Indiana, we'd suspect owls as well. Some of them have some very interesting vocalizations!
Ashley beolens
Breeding the next generation of birders.
Rabbits scream when they are cornered as well, they are quite high pitched bot it is very loud.
Alastair Rae
London birder
I'd guess foxes too.
There have been stories of people phoning the police because they thought fox screams were human!
There have been stories of people phoning the police because they thought fox screams were human!
Screeching Animal....
while we do have a local fox and her pups running around the fileds and adjacent woods, I heard screeching minutes ago (2am) - just out side on the edge of our yard - at the wood's edge - ran to get my spotlight - shined on what looked like (at 80yds) 2 weasel like animals ( 4 green/yellow eyes staring back at me) one ducked behind a rise and then as I scanned the woods with my spot, another had climbed 50ft into a tree!!!!!!!! Wasn't familiar with tree climbing foxes....
...nor rabbits...but I have heard of "killer rabbits..." lol
So bring on the replies...
while we do have a local fox and her pups running around the fileds and adjacent woods, I heard screeching minutes ago (2am) - just out side on the edge of our yard - at the wood's edge - ran to get my spotlight - shined on what looked like (at 80yds) 2 weasel like animals ( 4 green/yellow eyes staring back at me) one ducked behind a rise and then as I scanned the woods with my spot, another had climbed 50ft into a tree!!!!!!!! Wasn't familiar with tree climbing foxes....
...nor rabbits...but I have heard of "killer rabbits..." lol
So bring on the replies...
London Birder
Well-known member
fox ... they have some real bloodcurdling vocalisations
Anthony Morton
Well-known member
London Birder said:
Nothing's impossible I suppose, but vixens usually only scream during the mating season between December - February to let the dog fox know what's on her mind!
BTW, young foxes are known as cubs. And where did 2004 and 2005 go to on this thread?
Ian Hamiltan
Well-known member
out this morning in the dark,for the past two weeks past the same spot
heard the same eerie screaching sound thought it was owls but the sound
seem to be coming from the ground,it was driving me nuts not knowing
what it was and then this morning saw the culprit,a fox ive heard a fox
call before but its the first time i have heard that type of call before,it must
have had young in the field.
heard the same eerie screaching sound thought it was owls but the sound
seem to be coming from the ground,it was driving me nuts not knowing
what it was and then this morning saw the culprit,a fox ive heard a fox
call before but its the first time i have heard that type of call before,it must
have had young in the field.
mike from ebbw
Well-known member
I went to fill my feeders in a local wood the other week and spooked a vixen.She ran off screeching as she went.This was in broad daylight so I assume she was calling a warning to her cubs to get underground.
hi anne
I would say it was a fox. It is true what has been said about the errie noises. Foxes make them at night for some reason (why not during the day - I wonder!!)
I stayed in the middle of a wood in my last house, and the noise was very apparent, every night along with local Barn Owls and the Tawny Owl doing their thing too.
I shone a torch in a foxes eyes one might and they glowed in the dark. I nearly passed out. It was really creepy!!.
Maybe they are calling for their mates and their young, after all as you have just said Mike :t:
Peewit
I would say it was a fox. It is true what has been said about the errie noises. Foxes make them at night for some reason (why not during the day - I wonder!!)
I stayed in the middle of a wood in my last house, and the noise was very apparent, every night along with local Barn Owls and the Tawny Owl doing their thing too.
I shone a torch in a foxes eyes one might and they glowed in the dark. I nearly passed out. It was really creepy!!.
Maybe they are calling for their mates and their young, after all as you have just said Mike :t:
Peewit
Good-day to everybody.
Although it's difficult to explain the sound of a call / cry.
I would suggest that the original screeching/screaming sound
that was heard, by EL Annie, was two hedgehogs mateing!
( Come to think of it, I think I would scream!!!!)
Kind regards,
young Ian.
Although it's difficult to explain the sound of a call / cry.
I would suggest that the original screeching/screaming sound
that was heard, by EL Annie, was two hedgehogs mateing!
( Come to think of it, I think I would scream!!!!)
Kind regards,
young Ian.
Paul Godolphin
Member
I also bin in england. Here we got Pukeko and Spurwing Plover make noise sound same as english fox. Jus like a murder bin done in dark outside.
from Rewi
from Rewi
